There's a newly-named vessel servicing San Diego Bay and its Working Waterfront, thanks to fourth-grade students from two Barrio Logan-area elementary schools.

"Logan" was unveiled as the grand-prize winning name in the Pacific Tugboat Service "Name that Tug" contest, held at Cesar Chavez Park on Friday, May 17, 2013.

Seventy-one students from Logan and Perkins Elementary schools participated. Several students submitted "Logan" as the new tug name, as a sign of pride in their neighborhood.

View photo slideshow in new window

The Port of San Diego invites the public to celebrate the region's Working Waterfront at a family event that includes free tours, activities for children, live music and a maritime exhibit area.

The Working Waterfront Family Picnic will be held on Saturday, May 18, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Pepper Park in National City on the San Diego Bay waterfront. There will be free bus tours of the National City Marine Tour. On Sunday, May 19, the Port will host two free boat tours of San Diego Bay.

• Working Waterfront Weekend flyer (JPEG, 184 kB)

Members of the public are invited to attend a free festival to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Japan's gift of cherry trees to the Port of San Diego.

The first annual "Japan-U.S. Goodwill Cherry Blossom Festival" will take place Sunday, April 7, from 12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the San Diego-Yokohama Sister City Friendship Bell, located at 1401 Shelter Island Drive in San Diego.

The program is being co-hosted by the Port of San Diego and the San Diego-Yokohama Sister City Society.